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When scientific man looks upon a star..
What are stars REALLY?
The earth dwelling man and his limited scientific human reasoning and his science can observe them, describe how they "appear" to us from earth and hypothesize about them. But do we REALLY know?
We DO know that they ARE so far from us that we have never been able to reach them. (Or touch them.)
Or HAVE we?
But what does God say about them?
Lately I have spent quite a bit of time contemplating this.
With my coming to trust more and more in God's incredibly innerant Word as ALL the Truth we REALLY need ; when I came upon the verse in Genesis Chapter 1 about stars, it really caught my eye.
Genesis 1:16-18 NIV:
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Now THIS is very interesting. The sun we are told is a star and certainly it does divide (govern) night from day, but the verse goes on to say that ALL stars are there to govern night and day AND to separate light from darkness. When the verse says "God set THEM in the vault of the sky..." We, I think always just assume that this verse is only pertaining to the sun and the moon, but could it be that this seemingly awkwardly worded verse (It certainly is peculiar, this sequence) might really be saying something else?
I have never heard science describe ALL stars in this way, as "separating the dark from the Light". This point might SEEM mundane or just weirdly irrelevant, but it MAY just be absolutely and amazingly crucial. (Perhaps another great example of how God uses the absurdly, seemingly foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise. 1st cor. 1:27)
Now darkness and light, what do they symbolize idiomatically in the Bible?
Several things:
God/Satan
good / evil
Truth/lies
life/death
seeing/not seeing (physically and spiritually).
Heaven/Hell
I'm sure there are more, but I think these are all the biggies.
When you look at God's explanation of what stars are for in this "light" (pun intended). It sure brings up a lot of intriguing ideas in my mind. (Probably some future writes there for sure.)
Could this "way off" perception that we have of stars be illustrated and pointed out gloriously in the New Testament telling of "the Star" that led the "wise men" to the Savior? Whoaaaa!... LED them indeed! (My mind is actually blown!)
This description and function of a star in this Biblical instance is "scientifically impossible" to our mere mortal man's current understanding of them.
Could our current perception of stars to this day, be
"leading" OUR more modern "wise men" to somebody else?
All of these Biblical idioms of Light and darkness, they ALL seem to deal intimately with the human condition; especially as it relates to our relationship to GOD...So why then would it be a stretch to think that these stars aren't somehow intimately involved with relating Humans to God? (Especially given the scientific evidence by astrophysicists that say that at least 95 percent, or some absurd amount of the universe's matter and energy are known as "dark matter" and "dark energy" ... meaning we don't know WHAT it is.)
Now throw into this mix what scientists have come to call
"quantum entanglement", where particles are somehow instantaneously and mysteriously connected, and it very well may be a "Universal" game changer.
You could probably say that I am being foolish with these "unscientific" thoughts, but I can't help but wonder if God's Word is pointing out to us that maybe science for some reason somewhere along the line took a "leap of some other kind of faith" (or even several leaps) that it should never have taken.
Comparing today's human with the man of Genesis... How Adam and his descendants had such intimacy with God, and had such powerfully robust and long lived ( perhaps even Adonis like bodies that lived around 900 yrs) ; watching the erosion away of this that occured just throughout the Bible and then extrapolating THAT state phsically, spiritually and even mentally, to our modern state....
I just can't help but to have the idea pressed upon my mind of how MUCH the prince of darkness has constantly and unrelentlessly been able to obscure the Light of Truth over century upon century. Continuously leaving mortal, worldly man in greater and greater darkness and deterioration physically,mentally and spiritually to where seing the Light of Truth, or even recognizing it eludes him ever more and more.
Really, nothing surprises me anymore.
This all brings to mind another interesting question: why is the once glorious "space program " now all but dead? could it be that it served its purpose to cement in our minds the current "scientific" perspective of space? Hmmmmmm??? God only knows.
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